FFYFP Blog – Guidebook in the Making

By: Dr. Charissa Ho

Time sure flies. With this blog, I conclude my six years with the First Five Years in Family Practice (FFYFP) committee with the ACFP. It has been a pleasure to be a part of this amazing community and I will miss it as I take the next year or so to focus on other parts of life. Before I officially sign off, I am excited to share an exciting project that the FFYFP committee has been working on.

While we were at the 2023 Family Medicine Summit, we heard from a lot of our FFYFP members that there is no one place to get information about how to practise in Alberta. Everyone just figures it out and learn as they go. As much as experience helps us in figuring out our practice climate, the committee also realized this is a huge gap in our services to the membership.

The FFYFP Guidebook

Coming up in the fall, the FFYFP committee will have a published guidebook on the basics of “how to” practise in Alberta. This has been a large undertaking by our team’s generous volunteer time. This guidebook will walk folks through things like registration, how to stay up to date, various parts of practice management, billing, working with other health professionals and specialists, physician well-being, CPSA standards of practice, etc. Our hope is that this will be people’s one stop shop for information needed to practise in Alberta. In this guidebook, there will be basic explanation of how things work in different realms of practice, and links to more resources.

We hope you folks will find this guidebook helpful, and I am so proud of what our team has accomplished.